Entry # 1 Bush

Very few things in the world get people's attention. But there is one thing that everyone has to deal with, no matter how hard you try to ignore it. That's right, I'm talking about politics. Politics, the cornerstone of modern civilization, is the reason for everyday living. Many of those in politics belong in Washington, but a few don't. I'm not saying anything about how people run our country. I will be the first to tell you that politics is not the first thing on my mind when I wake up in the morning. Living in this era, however, I grew up with one political figure always in the news, good or bad. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm talking about George W. Bush.

I chose Bush to be the first person to blog about for several reasons, but one reason in particular. In class, we have been talking all year about brevity. Brevity is the ability to say very little, but have a large impact. George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States, however, has become infamous for his ability to spend a lot of time saying very little.

There are many nuggets of wisdom to George, there just not intellectual nuggets. They are more like corn dog nuggets than nuggets of wisdom. Not much is said of him from birth to election, but when he got into the oval office, he opened his mouth and everyone heard him.

Here are a few of his most famous quotes about different matters:

On Social Security:
  "Down in Washington, their playing with Social Security like it's a government program."
  "My opponent seems to think that Social Security is a government program. I believe that money is   yours and you should be able to invest in it yourself."

On War:
  " The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!" 

On Electronics:
  "Will the highways on the internet become more few?"

On History:
  "The holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century"
  "That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th. This is the first chapter of the 21st."
  "I think we can agree; the past is over."
  "The future will be better tomorrow"

On Education:
  "You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
  "If we don't succeed, then we run the risk of failure."

George W. Bush was our nation's leader for 8 years. Most of those quotes came from his tenure in office. Although those are just a few of his best quotes, I'm sure that more of them are out there. I leave you with the words of George Bush himself, "I stand by all the misstatements I've made."

Quotes cited from wolaver.org and "1001 dumbest things ever said"